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Actually on a butterflied herring, meant to be less attractive to live mullet eating sharks!

Not a goal but rather a hope, that being less sharks at my local. One definite goal, get a 70-80 barra to take home. They are all way over that at the moment, which go back. Sunday's effort between feeding sharks:

Lip grips so long as you can reach the waterline on those sea walls. I have one hooked to my tackle bag but never use them because these days I'm always fishing the beach. And recently definitely not a need - the beach is shark city since the floods in Cairns

This worked about 40 years ago: Pump some squirt worms and fish them at night on a fine gauge size 6 long shank, in dark and quiet areas of the river, cast just a few metres from shore. Huge whiting cruise the shallows at night, but they spook easy. If no squirt worms use pea sized soldier crabs. Day time, jig live herring at Boyds bay bridge on the ebb tide, and walk them along the rock wall with the current on a long leader = catch flathead.

I think depends on the level of difficulty of the fishing your doing. I have a fishing mate who insists on using cheap rods/ reels/ braid/ leader/ terminal tackle and consistently gets 90% less hits and loses 90% of the fish he hooks, chasing barra/ salmon/ queenies etc. I have longer casts, smoother drag, more robust leader etc. Meanwhile he outfishes me 10 to 1 up the river on the little stuff - bream, grunter etc.

Gulp shrimp and Keitech Easy Shiner for me!

to suit the bait size - 5/0 to 7/0

Entirely wind dependent - usually get the NE winds Oct-March, but over the years have seen short NE wind breaks through other months where it fires too.

Note the sideways rod action is because I'm trying to work out whether I'm under or over my other line....

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air. Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones. Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk: 93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4 Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra: Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again! IMG_2661 (1).mov

Have caught them in NT and a couple in Cairns, bit like a blue salmon but have no 'threads' under the head. I vaguely remember reading in a fishing book as a kid, them being called 'moreton bay tailor'?

Bream/ flathead carbonara. Fillet, cut in small pieces and cook in the carbonara sauce with Brazilian spinach. I do it with blue/ king salmon and its amazing. The portuguese ancestry in me - firm flesh fish like that I also like using for caldeirada (Portuguese fish stew). Its really easy to make - plenty recipes online.

Bit different down there because you get salmon in deep water whereas I'm fishing shallow water. But, up here king salmon (threadies for you) and grunter love live yabbies. I'm thinking if you can get yabbies, fish them on a long leader and size 2 long shank late at night - opening up big bream, whiting, grunter, salmon, jewies etc. all on the same rig.

Shame it was belly up though; don't really want or need to keep anything that big.